Achievement Quote by Bill Vaughan

Half of all kids in public education are below the poverty line. Two-thirds of the achievement gap comes from factors outside of school. Teachers…

— Randi Weingarten

I mean, one thing I know about change is we are not going to close the achievement gap without educators.

— Margaret Spellings

If we want to close the achievement gap, build a well-educated workforce and responsible citizenry, we must start with our youngest children.

— John Hickenlooper

We need to lengthen the school day. We need to lengthen the school year. Our calendar is based upon the agrarian economy. Children in…

— Arne Duncan

You can't just abandon accountability measures in schools... Educators want that because otherwise they can't identify achievement-gap issues for students.

— Michelle Lujan Grisham

This is a devastating problem, is, the longer our children are in school, the worse they do. Year after year after year, our children…

— Arne Duncan

My vision is that schools need to be community centers. Schools need to be open 12, 13, 14 hours a day six, seven days…

— Arne Duncan

Most of the homeschooled children I know have about the same amount of after-school peer time as the rest of the population but, obviously,…

— Quinn Cummings

Schools serving disadvantaged students need more time to help these students catch up and gain the core academic skills they will need to succeed…

— Chris Gabrieli

When nearly a third of our high school students do not graduate on time with their peers, we have work to do. We must…

— Christine Gregoire

Many expanded-time schools have generated extraordinary results. In some cases, they have completely closed the achievement gap, all while installing curricula with a richness…

— Chris Gabrieli

Children do not learn in school; they are babysat. It takes maybe 50 hours to teach reading, writing, and arithmetic. After that, students can…

— John Taylor Gatto